Two months into puppy training and I believe this title says it all. One day the four-month-old…
Opinion
Familiar pattern
The pattern is strangely familiar. Investors at the beginning of the year start to believe that the…
April showers
“April showers bring May flowers.” So it is said and so it is hoped for, but by the…
A mug’s game
Predicting the course of the stock market generally is a mug’s game. Very few, in fact almost…
Knuckles and know-how on a routine train trip in 1923
I like to indulge my fascination with railways several times per year in this column. Though little…
Resident rooster
I‘m quite sure that, in the four score years that I have been hanging around, I could count…
What to do
The greatest problem confronting the investment community is what to do. Investment advisors, if…
Class is in
The only thing more annoying than the reality that summer 2013 has come to a close are those…
The hockey bag
As a proud Canadian there are two things I realize I am not allowed to complain about: the cold…
Group thinking
In general, people’s decisions in the market are made on their own information and then, to a…
Hugh Guthrie served term as federal Conservative leader
Hugh Guthrie’s name should be familiar to longtime readers of this column. Over the years he…
Imagine
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was dreaming, merging the details of a news report coming…
J.M. Jackson was important Elora businessman in 1920s
Ranking high among the businessmen of the early twentieth century in Wellington County was Joseph…
Say something
This week Bell Canada launched it’s Let’s Talk campaign to end the stigma of mental…
The smell of food
I don’t think there is anything more pleasant than walking, on a cold, cold winter day, into…